News and Achievements

ISSS/Microwave Seminar on Parity Time-reversal Duality (PTD ) Symmetric Structures

Speaker: Iram Nadeem Affiliation: University of Siena Italy Synopsis:  Topological Edge modes (TPEMs) are the electromagnetic (EM) equivalent of the edge states in the integer quantum hall effect that occurs due to topological phase transitions of matter, the discovery at the origin of the Nobel Prize awarded to Thouless, Haldane and Kosterlitz in 2016. The EM extension […]


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EPSRC Strategic Equipment Grant Awarded

We have been awarded more than £1M from EPSRC, with another £0.5M match funding from school, to establish an experimental satellite ground station facility (SGSF). SGSF will be hosted by Heriot-Watt University and be located at the Errol airfield, collocated with Dundee Satellite Station Ltd (DSS). SGSF will provide currently unavailable capabilities and accelerate research […]


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Microwave Seminar on Leaky-Wave Antennas

Date & Time: Nov. 10, Thursday: 14:00-15:00. Location: Seminar Room DB315 in Edinburgh campus. Speaker: Miguel Poveda-Garcia, from Spain, studied at Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), where he received the BEng, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering. So far, Miguel has focused his research on leaky-wave antennas and their applications, topic that has gained […]


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Royal Society Research Grant Awarded

We have been awarded the funding from The Royal society on ‘Millimeter-Wave Active Integrated Lens Antenna‘. The project aims to explore a substrate integrated active lens antenna with light weight, low profile, easy integration and cost effectiveness. For more details please contact Dr. Lei Wang.


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EPS Postgraduate Research Day 2022

Our first-year students Margaux and Adan have participated the 2022 EPS postgraduate research day in the James Watt Centre, to show and communicate with other students and researchers on their first-year PhD research. Our second-year student Max has given a PGR talk in the 2022 EPS postgraduate research day. Additionally, let’s congratulate Adan and Max […]


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Post Available for 2-year KTP Project

We have a 2-year KTP Associate position openning. This KTP is a collaboration project with the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS, led by Prof. Omar Laghrouche) and the School of Engineering and Physical Science (EPS, led by Dr Yuan Ding and Prof. George Goussetis) in Heriot-Watt University and STORY Contracting Ltd. The […]


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New PhD Student onboard

Welcome Yanxu Li joining our group from June 2022 as a PhD student. Yanxu Li received the bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Northeast Forestry University, China in 2017. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University. Her research interests include MMIC power amplifier and highly integrated antenna […]


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ISSS Summer Scholarship

Congratulations to Jiayu Hou for being awarded with the ISSS summer scholarship. Her project is under the topic of future millimetre wave (mmWave) wireless communications. The aim of this project is to explore signal-oriented characterisation method to evaluate the performance of power amplifiers (PAs) in dynamic uncontrollable operation scenarios caused by near-field coupling of reconfigurable […]


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James Watt Scholarships

In March, the selection for PhD scholarships have taken place. Congratulations to Shan Han for obtaining a James Watt Scholarship. Welcome to the Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems and Microwaves and Antenna Engineering Group.


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